{"id":3919,"date":"2012-04-24T10:45:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T10:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2012-04-24T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T10:51:57","slug":"scibarcamb-2012-saturday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/2012\/04\/24\/scibarcamb-2012-saturday-afternoon","title":{"rendered":"#SciBarCamb 2012: Saturday Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend saw the return of \u00a0Science Barcamp Cambridge\u00a0<a title=\"SciBarCamb website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scibarcamb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SciBarCamb<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 an unconference in Cambridge, UK for scientists and technologists, taking place on the Friday 20th April and all day on Saturday 21st.\u00a0The goal of the event is to create connections between people who have a lot in common, but don&#8217;t work in the same field and may not meet each other otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s meeting was organised by\u00a0Eva Amsen, Michelle Brook, Taylor Burns, Maria Cruz, Dan Hagon, Jonathan Lawson, Matt Wood and Lou Woodley. Many thanks to the sponsors, Science, nature.com, Digital Science and Eagle Genomics.<\/p>\n<p>After a successful morning full of stimulating sessions (you can check out the morning Storifys <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/2012\/04\/23\/scibarcamb-2012-friday-evening-and-saturday-morning\">here <\/a>and here),\u00a0attendees\u00a0enjoyed their lunch while getting the opportunity to network and talk science.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/files\/2012\/04\/Instagram1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3924\" title=\"Instagram\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/files\/2012\/04\/Instagram1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/files\/2012\/04\/Instagram1.png 627w, https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/files\/2012\/04\/Instagram1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/files\/2012\/04\/Instagram1-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Picture <a href=\"https:\/\/instagr.am\/p\/Ju-7TfDWVP\/\">Source<\/a>: #SciBarCamb\u00a0attendees\u00a0enjoying\u00a0their\u00a0lunch<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Below you can find A Storify for the following Saturday sessions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lanyrd.com\/2012\/scibarcamb\/srhkr\/\">How to end ageing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lanyrd.com\/2012\/scibarcamb\/srhkw\/\">Could genomics save the world<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lanyrd.com\/2012\/scibarcamb\/srhky\/\">The hidden perils in communicating science to the general public\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lanyrd.com\/2012\/scibarcamb\/srhmf\/\">Do it yourself biology (DIYBio) &#8211; Fairy floss or Frankenstein?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lanyrd.com\/2012\/scibarcamb\/srhmd\/\">Lightning talks\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also read what everyone was saying on Twitter, so check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/search\/%23SciBarCamb\" target=\"_blank\">#SciBarCamb<\/a>\u00a0hashtag and stay tuned for more Storifys and blog posts about the event.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/natnetnews\/scibarcamb-2012-saturday-afternoon.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><noscript>[&amp;lt;a href=&#8221;https:\/\/storify.com\/natnetnews\/scibarcamb-2012-saturday-afternoon&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;&amp;gt;View the story &#8220;#SciBarCamb 2012 Saturday Afternoon&#8221; on Storify&amp;lt;\/a&amp;gt;]<\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend saw the return of \u00a0Science Barcamp Cambridge\u00a0SciBarCamb\u00a0\u2013 an unconference in Cambridge, UK for scientists and technologists, taking place on the Friday 20th April and all day on Saturday 21st.\u00a0The goal of the event is to create connections between people who have a lot in common, but don\u2019t work in the same field and may not meet each other otherwise.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/2012\/04\/24\/scibarcamb-2012-saturday-afternoon#wpn-more-3919\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-scibarcamb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}